i just saw someone completely seriously, without a hint of irony, refer to it as “Q-slur Eye” and my intestines started melting like so many Salvador Dalí clocks
I’ve seen “don’t call the show Qu**r Eye if you’re a cishet and can’t reclaim the q-slur” so nothing surprises me anymore.
“Don’t normalize this word that people fought really hard to normalize! Let it keep its oppressive power because I don’t understand queer history”
God I literally fucking hate this rhetoric. It’s exclusionary, gatekeepy, TERFy, and supports a totally revisionist queer history that erases so many marginalized people, especially people who are marginalized on multiple axes.
“LET IT KEEP ITS OPPRESSIVE POWER BECAUSE I DON’T UNDERSTAND QUEER HISTORY”
Wow that really sums it up.
I lived through the “take back the word queer” movement, so let me further sum it up
The entire point was to strip the word of the power to hurt us. We embraced it by refusing to be offended by it. We were saying “you can’t hurt us with that word, we now feel empowered when we hear it.”
During this time I saw an interview with a gay man who’d been arrested while wearing a “We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used To It” t-shirt. He was put into a holding cell with other detainees who tried to verbally abuse him. They started out by calling him queer but after seeing his t-shirt, and him not reacting to that word, they started stumbling over their words trying to find a name to call him. They finally settled on repeatedly calling him a “sissy” which, by the late 90s, had become a very out-dated slur toward queer men and was a laughable effort by these hyper-masculine and sexist bullies
When they tried to call him a queer it had no power because embracing the word, no matter who said it, had taken away that power
tl;dr We took back the word Queer with the intent of it no longer having the power to hurt us, but people now calling it the Q-slur are giving power back to the people who hate us
Grog confessing he’s not afraid to die, but he doesn’t want Kevdak to kill him
Keyleth burning away the Clasp mark on Vax’s back and putting her own handprint there
Anything featuring Dr. Anna Ripley
That time the team fought a robot that Matthew Mercer’s teenage self-insert nerdy lonely dragon ruler of the city J’mon Sa Ord just … keeps around I guess?
Vax feeling drawn to Sarenrae for much of the first chunk of the story
The fact that Vex and Percy had a financial domination relationship for like the entire show I haven’t seen one fic that explores that and this is outrageous
Grog and Scanlan briefly alluding to that time they Eiffel Towered someone
Shale calling Umbrasyl a “flying suitcase” and hitting him with her stick
Please feel free to add your own underrated moments.
I feel like we’re all sleeping on the part of Jester’s-dad-is-the-Gentleman-reveal that in it all Caduceus just quietly says “he is a very attractive man.”
That and Taliesin’s “kill us and we come back gayer” quote just confirms that Caduceus is the pastel-goth-tea-making-gay that we need and deserve
Encounter: a wolf with a soul patch and a comb-over that isn’t racist or homophobic or anything, obviously, but just wants to play devil’s advocate for a minute 18:14
We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 